Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Berlin, Spandau, Berlin, Germany || Kriegsverbrechergefängnis

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

The driver stopped the train near the summit of the hill to inspect and adjust the braking system and climbed back into the cab. When he started the train the brakes totally failed, causing the train to roll with great velocity straight back down the hill, crashing after passing two stations into a slow moving goods train.
(24 June 2002)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3381 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6450 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Kriegsverbrechergefängnis

Spandau, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Friday 18th of July 1947 (x) — Nazi leader and Stellvertreter des Führers Rudolf Hess is transported with six other Nazi leaders by aircraft to the Allied military prison.
Friday 30th of September 1966 (x) — Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach are released from prison whereby Nazi leader and Stellvertreter des Führers Rudolf Hess becomes the last imprisoned Nazi leader.
Monday 17th of August 1987 (-) — Nazi leader and Stellvertreter des Führers Rudolf Hess commits suicide by asphyxiation.
Hess took an extension cord from one of the lamps, strung it over a window latch and hanged himself. A short note to his family thanking them for all they had done was found in his pocket.